This is the politics the left made – based on threats of power, not peaceful persuasion

I guess like me you’ve been more than a little shocked at the Republican “insurrection” in the United States. But for me it has been a double shock. Not only am I shocked, but I’m shocked that I’m shocked.

US politics has been strongly heading in this direction for quite some time. So it should have been easily foreseeable, but I was heavily discounting the possibility that it would actually occur.

What we saw at the Capitol on January 6 was an opposite, but not even close to equal, reaction to left-wing trends that have accelerated over the last 12 years ago, starting around the time of the election of Barack Obama.

These trends are:

• An increasing tendency for governments and courts to ignore well-established…